The Parsnip Ship

08/02/2025

🎙️🚀 We’re back with SIX brand-new audio plays — bold, genre-defying, and unapologetically q***r. This season, we’re bringing you stories that bend time, break form, and center voices too often pushed to the margins. 🎧✨
Get ready for a season of wild worlds, tender truths, and fearless storytelling. 🌈
📢 Now streaming — find your next favorite play today.

Read more on BroadwayWorld:

The Parsnip Ship, the Brooklyn-based audio theater podcast celebrated by The New York Times as one of “5 Podcasts to Bring Theater Into Your Home,” has released six new audio dramas as part of its latest programming slate. The new episodes, available for free across streaming platforms, highligh...

07/31/2025

🎧 MEET THE SOUND DESIGNER 🎧

The Parsnip Ship presents HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL DEAREST— and the world of this time-bending, mixtape-fueled, Q***r comedy-drama wouldn’t exist without the incredible sonic vision of Rachel Brees.

Based in the Twin Cities, Rachel is a sound designer, composer, and audio engineer whose work spans from the stage to the airwaves. Her recent credits include Minnesota Opera, The Playwrights’ Center, Ten Thousand Things, Minnesota Public Radio, and of course—The Parsnip Ship. She also produces for the beloved kids’ podcast Brains On! 🧠🎙️

Rachel creates soundscapes that do more than set the mood—they expand the story.

🎧 Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

👉 theparsnipship.com for full credits + listening info

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07/31/2025

🎭 MEET THE DIRECTOR 🎭

The Parsnip Ship presents: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL DEAREST 🎧
Directed by the fierce and visionary Janelle Zapata Castellano ✨

Janelle is a Producer, Director, and Arts Administrator—and the Co-Artistic Director of Step1 Theatre Project. Her work has lit up stages like Rutgers-NJIT, the Kraine, and Joe’s Pub. Boriqua AF, she’s on a mission to reshape the theatre world into one that is culturally competent, consent forward, and trauma informed.
Want to talk about implementing those values in your work? Janelle’s your person. 🧠💥

Her direction of Happy Birthday Angel Dearest is layered, bold, and rooted in care—bringing to life a wild, Q***r one-act full of time travel, mixtapes, and sibling truths.

🎧 Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

👉 theparsnipship.com to listen + learn more

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07/22/2025

🎉 Meet Javier Rivera DeBruin (they/he), the playwright behind HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL DEAREST, a Radio Roots Writers Group radio play commission from The Parsnip Ship. 🎧✨

Directed by Janelle Zapata Castellano, this play follows Angel’s 33rd birthday as they and their sibling Girlie journey through nostalgia, gender-euphoria, and hidden memories. Will they break free and find the liberation they seek? 🎂🔮

Featuring: Dariel Angeles, Tori Ashley Matos, Tanya Perez, Mel Nieves, Dan Drew, and Danny Newman.

✨ Swipe to learn more about Javier and their incredible work as a playwright! 🎭

🎧 Tune in now wherever you listen to podcasts!

07/15/2025

📸 Tomorrow marks one month since our live recording of QUARTER RICAN — and we’re still buzzing with gratitude and pride! 💥✨

Swipe through some unforgettable moments from that powerful night of music, storytelling, and community. 🎤🎶

Huge love to AirLoom Beats, Gabriel Diego Hernández, Luke DiCola, Iyvon E., Al Parker, SkittLeZ Ortiz, Brisa Areli Muñoz, Andrea Negrete, Musical Theatre Factory, and A.R.T./NY for making it all possible. Y’all helped bring this vision to life in the most beautiful way. 🙌🏽💛

🎬 Stay tuned — our full recap video drops TOMORROW! You won’t want to miss it.

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06/30/2025

🎙️ Meet the Director: Estefanía Fadul 🎭
Colombian-American director Estefanía Fadul, one of the incoming co-Artistic Directors at Ensemble Studio Theatre, brings her powerful vision to AND THE ANSWER IS... for The Parsnip Ship. With a passion for new plays and a deep commitment to civic practice, she’s shaping the future of American theatre.

🎧 Tune in wherever you get your podcasts to hear this story come to life.
🔗 Learn more about her work at www.estefaniafadul.com

06/22/2025

✨ Get into this cast ✨
The Parsnip Ship & Latinx Playwrights Circle present TIME, DON’T TAKE IT AWAY — a magical comedy romp written by Justin Santory and directed by Jorge Merced.

🌀 Léo buys a t-shirt at Mama Sal’s that comes with… an unusual surprise. Enter Benny — a beautiful dancer (except Léo doesn’t know that yet). Meanwhile, his platonic life-mate Roxy is chasing new dreams of her own. How do we hold on, let go, and laugh through the heartbreak that even good change can bring?

Featuring the incredible talents of:
🎭 Mildred R. Gil
🎭 Pierre Jean Gonzalez
🎭 SkittLeZ Ortiz
🎭 Xavier Reyes
🎭 Zahaira Curiel

🗓️ Monday, June 23, 2025
📍 The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund
160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

💫 Caftans, calderos, love, potions & disco await. Come early for light bites & good vibes.
🎟️ RSVP now — link in bio!

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06/20/2025

🎭✨ Meet the Director: Jorge B. Merced ✨🎭
An award-winning visionary and a pillar of U.S. Latinx theater, Jorge Merced is known for his fearless, bilingual storytelling rooted in Puerto Rican/Latinx, q***r, migrant, and Afro-Caribbean experiences. As Associate Artistic Director of Pregones/PRTT, he champions powerful narratives that center cultural equity and joy.

Now, he brings his magic to The Parsnip Ship & Latinx Playwrights Circle’s newest production:
TIME, DON’T TAKE IT AWAY 💫
Léo buys a t-shirt… and ends up with a potion, a beautiful dancer, and a whole lot of questions about love, change, and the magic of letting go. 🌈🪩✨

📅 Join us June 23, 2025 @ 6:30pm
RSVP now for this whimsical, heart-filled night of comedy, calderos, and caftans!

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06/18/2025

🎭 Meet the Playwright: Justin Santory 🏳️‍🌈✨
A proud gay Nuyorican and AMDA/Queens College grad, Justin is the voice behind bold, magical stories that sprinkle adobo on the American stage. From Three’s a Party to On a Higher Vibration and now Time, Don’t Take It Away, his plays explore love, identity, and transformation with humor, heart, and a little bit of disco.

🎧 Join us for the LIVE RECORDING of The Parsnip Ship and Latinx Playwrights Circle present TIME, DON’T TAKE IT AWAY
Written by Justin Santory | Directed by Jorge Merced

🌈 Time, Don’t Take It Away is a comedy romp where Léo buys a mysterious T-shirt, meets a beautiful dancer named Benny, and faces change that even friendship and magic can’t hold back. Think: calderos, caftans, potions, love, and disco balls.

📅 Monday, June 23, 2025 @ 6:30pm
📍 The Mark O’Donnell Theater @ Entertainment Community Fund
🗽 160 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn
🎟️ RSVP now at the link in bio — you don’t want to miss this one.

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06/16/2025

🎧🎭 Happening NOW! We’re LIVE with QUARTER RICAN — the electrifying new audio play by Gabriel Diego Hernández & Rachel Elmer, fusing hip hop, fatherhood, and culture straight from the heart of Brooklyn!

🎤🔥 The vibes are strong, the mics are hot, and the story is unfolding — don’t miss your chance to be part of this unforgettable night of theatre magic.

📍 A.R.T./NY South Oxford Space
🕡 Doors open at 6:30 with light bites & good energy — the show is rolling at 7pm, and so is the rhythm.

🎟️ Last call to grab a seat — RSVP via the link in bio!

06/12/2025

✨ ABOUT THE SHOW ✨
Join us for a LIVE RECORDING of TIME, DON’T TAKE IT AWAY by Justin Santory, directed by Jorge Merced — presented by The Parsnip Ship & Latinx Playwrights Circle! 🎭🎧
📅 Monday, June 23, 2025
📍 The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund
160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
When Léo buys a t-shirt from Mama Sal’s shop, he gets way more than he bargained for — cue magical surprises, unexpected love, and a beautiful dancer named Benny (even if Léo doesn’t know it yet). As his best friend Roxy embraces a new path, Léo must learn to hold joy and heartbreak at the same time. 💫 A whimsical, heart-forward comedy full of calderos, caftans, potions, love, and disco!
🎟️ RSVP now at the link in our bio!
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